Things you were scared of when young.

SeanKev

List goes on.

Rushden

Nothing, I'm a real man:cool:

brendansmith

My fathers vicious beatings.

Sea Sharp

The witch looking woman in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0

Now she just looks kinda hot.

Michellenman

The snake under my bed. Where I got this idea from I do not know but for 8 years I didn't hang my leg out of the bed for fear.

AnonoBoy

Getting old.

Thank God that didn't happen, eh?

brummytom

Well I had a dream when I was about 7 - there'd been a murder on the road IRL, and in my dream there'd been another. Later, a man came to the door selling bicycles, and took out a knife.

"I use the little one for the little children" was the line he said. I've never forgotten it, I woke up screaming just as he went for me.



So, murderers

G2010

Rushden wrote: »

Nothing, I'm a real man:cool:

do i Know you?? you seem like a bear

Dunjohn

When I was a wee lad, I loved porridge but my mum was always trying to get me to eat Ready Brek instead (I dunno, maybe it was cheaper. This was the early eighties). I absolutely refused, I would not eat Ready Brek under any circumstances. I remember one time I was about to have a bowl of what looked like porridge, but I happened to glance into the kitchen and saw a box of Ready Brek on the counter. I threw an almighty fuss and refused to touch the stuff. To this day I have still never told mum why that was.

You know the ads for Ready Brek? Where the kids eat it and they start to glow? They still use it in their modern ads. I was ****ing terrified that I'd start glowing like those kids.

Also, once the light went out and I was tucked into bed, I wouldn't move a muscle. I was convinced that, if I turned around, E.T. would be there in the bed beside me. That ****ing scene in the cornfield scared the living bejaysus out of me.

Bob Z

The Internet

IvySlayer

The drain at the end of the bath. My sister told me when I was younger it sucks people in. And when it's making the noise as the water is going down, it's getting ready to suck

Even to this day I can't put my foot near one in the shower, I know it's stupid.

Proxy

What are those first things with the wheels?

I was scared of those people that uses to call around to your house for trick or treat, I really thought they were witches and whatever. I also had a phobia of water that I got over on my 21st birthday when my girlfriend at the time more or less pushed me into a pool.

I lie, she didn't really push me, and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. I miss her.

Rushden

brendansmith wrote: »

My fathers vicious beatings.

The smiley at the end really helps express your fear

Alessandra

When it was summer and I would have the window open and my light on reading before sleep lots of moths would come in through the window attracted to the light. I was terrified. Moths are horrible!

littlefriend

I was scared of not being a child anymore, I remember panicking about it before going asleep all the time.

cson

The old traveller woman that used to call to our house for left over bread and things like that; she scared me with the gypsy curse of god vibe coming off her :eek:

IvySlayer

Alessandra wrote: »

When it was summer and I would have the window open and my light on reading before sleep lots of moths would come in through the window attracted to the light. I was terrified. Moths are horrible!

Daddy long legs are worse. Spiders with wings *shivers*

Professey Chin

In 101 Dalmatians theres this movie on the tv a couple times in it with what I can only describe as a freaky evil cowboy in it.For some reason he used to scare the living sh!t out of me.And that deville mingbat wasnt doing any favours either

Super-Rush

Yer man Arthur Murphy who presented Mailbag on RTE back in the day used to scare the bejaysus out of me.

aligator_am

This terrified me when I was younger, it's still a bit creepy even now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbklTNDU2E

anucksunamun

http://media.crikey.com.au/Media/images/obama5-13a00e76-a1a6-41a4-8066-4d4589b423d1.jpg
Pennywise the clown.

Stephen King you bas*ard
I still get a chill when I see him..

'I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of'
'BEEP BEEP Richie! They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too'

scudzilla

Dalek's scared the shite outta me :(

AnonoBoy

Dunjohn wrote: »

When I was a wee lad, I loved porridge but my mum was always trying to get me to eat Ready Brek instead (I dunno, maybe it was cheaper. This was the early eighties).

Nah, porridge is cheaper. Your Ma was just a rep for Ready Brek. She used to charge you for breakfast too didn't she?

myflipflops

I say the TV series of Stephen Kings 'It' when i was about 9. Scared the hell out of me for a few years.

ashyle

I used to be terrified of aliens landing outside cos the house that backs onto ours had this crazy bright floodlight out their back garden for a time, I would think it was the mothership landing.
Oh and my mam gave me this book on how babies are made when I was like 7, the illustrations in it gave me nightmares for weeks (In fairness it still scares me!)

fionnmar

forklifts

1nk3d4L1f3

In my dream's: Drowning in QuickSand. Scared the hell outta me. http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0996/images/quicksand.jpg

Midnight_EG

The dark :mad:

CrazyRabbit

I was scared of my Christian Brothers teachers. 'Christian'...oh what irony!

brummytom

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

'Christian'...oh what irony!

Why, were they Muslim?

alwaysadub

Thunder and Lightening-used to think it would hit me in the house.
Ghosts.
Spiders and the like.

Glico Man

Water. And there's a very good reason. When I was five I caught the final scene from a Friday the 13th film

where Jason jumps out of the lake to grab someone in a boat

....Still gives me the shivers




*spoiler in case no one has seen it



And one that has already been mentioned.... "It" the clown. Pure evil

Saibh

Clowns - after my first time going to the circus.

Midnight_EG

aaronh007 wrote: »

Water, thanks to Friday the 13th. Still gives me the shivers

Is that cos the water was cold?

Novella

When I was young, I was scared that if my foot or whatever was sticking out from under my duvet when I was asleep, a monster would eat it!

ejmaztec

Rushden wrote: »

The smiley at the end really helps express your fear

Perhaps he became a masochist, and developed a fondness for travelling in ambulances.

psycho-hope

Richard O'Brien, the guy that presented the Crystal maze:eek:

brummytom

Actually, thinking about it more, throughout all of my early childhood (pre-teens) I was terrified of being attacked/killed in my room. I had so many dreams about he or a family member being killed in the house.

I used to wrap myself so tightly in the quilt, to shield me from a knife. The window had to be double checked. The door had to be open so mom and dad could hear if I screamed. I couldn't lie on my front in case they came up and stabbed me in the back. I couldn't lie on my back because I'd look like a was a body being laid out.

Thinking about it, I was absolutely scared stiff of it. Obviously, everyone worries about getting hurt, but my fear was obsessive

Midnight_EG

brummytom wrote: »

Actually, thinking about it more, throughout all of my early childhood (pre-teens) I was terrified of being attacked/killed in my room. I had so many dreams about he or a family member being killed in the house.

I used to wrap myself so tightly in the quilt, to shield me from a knife. The window had to be double checked. The door had to be open so mom and dad could hear if I screamed. I couldn't lie on my front in case they came up and stabbed me in the back. I couldn't lie on my back because I'd look like a was a body being laid out.

Thinking about it, I was absolutely scared stiff of it. Obviously, everyone worries about getting hurt, but my fear was obsessive

Excellent, rigormortis has set in.

IvySlayer

brummytom wrote: »

Actually, thinking about it more, throughout all of my early childhood (pre-teens) I was terrified of being attacked/killed in my room. I had so many dreams about he or a family member being killed in the house.

I used to wrap myself so tightly in the quilt, to shield me from a knife. The window had to be double checked. The door had to be open so mom and dad could hear if I screamed. I couldn't lie on my front in case they came up and stabbed me in the back. I couldn't lie on my back because I'd look like a was a body being laid out.

Thinking about it, I was absolutely scared stiff of it. Obviously, everyone worries about getting hurt, but my fear was obsessive

My bro did the exact same thing, except he slept like a vampire, arms crossed and hands on shoulders to protect his heart from a knife

jen-

My evil older sisters inlicted alot of my fears on me!! we used to have to go to strandhill in Sligo for our summer holidays, and stay in a mobile home ( we went all out) and the weather was always awful and they would tell me that the wind and the rain was the sea crashing in ontop of us!

they also told me dracula lived in the upstairs window of this really spooky house beside my grandparents house.:mad:

lion_bar

Injun Joe. Scariest character on TV ever.

brendansmith

Killing the wrong nonce.

seanybiker

I used to love the show but sometimes that wurzle gummage used to scare the bejaysus outta me. I remember him getting one of his heads(the thinking one possibly) from a black sack he had tied to a rope and dropped in a canal, what the crap like.
That and he was the spit of me grandfather.

People eating Clowns.
People eating Puppets.
People eating nuns.

See a trend? :P

Capt'n Midnight

The man

JayzuzHowiye

automated carwashes! When the spun around I was convinced they were possesed. Could never sit in the car while we got the car washed.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

'The cross man'

When I was young and wouldn't go to bed the aul pair would warn me that the cross man would call over

Of course I wouldnt believe them until the aul boy would sly out of the room and ring the doorbell.

You wouldn't see me for dust after that

Run_to_da_hills

Rats, once corned a little fu*ker that jumped straight over my shoulder, my brother try to calm be down telling me that it was a big gerbil.

recylingbin

If you pass me a doll, I'll show you.

we'llallhavetea_old

having my feet outside the blankets, someone could grab them (still can't do it)

the fire thing in the basement of home alone (what an unnecessarly frightening bastard of a yolk)

and the people on my posters used to move in the dark, i would lie there, glued to the bed, smothering myself under the duvet absolutely petrified.